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TIL many people would prefer administering electric shocks to themselves instead of being left alone with their thoughts.

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0wQwj TIL a NASA-funded research project led to a dolphin being given LSD, and sexual encounters between the dolphin and the scientist
0wAmR TIL one of the rarest butterflies in Australia has a symbiotic relationship with ants who escort the caterpillar to a plant to feed, then bring it back to their nest to watch over while it sleeps. The ants get a sweet nectar in return.
MeV07 TIL in 2015 a father saved his son's life when doctors wrongly declared him braindead and were taking him off life support. He barricaded himself with a gun in the hospital and had a stand-off with SWAT until his son squeezed his hand. The son made a full recovery
v1XPR TIL after the space shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003 the debris field stretched from Texas through Louisiana, and the search team was so thorough they found nearly 84,000 pieces of the shuttle, as well as a number of murder victims and a few meth labs.
5Pd8 TIL ‘The Guinness Book of World Records’ holds the world record for the best-selling copyrighted book of all time